Fact packs
A pack is eight facts that belong together, read in order: one story told in eight surprising steps. In the app a pack is a single sitting; here it is a page.
- The Longitude Problem
Eight facts, each caused by the last — from a fleet wrecked on the rocks to the satellite in your pocket.
8 facts - A Pond in Massachusetts
One man cut ice from a lake in 1806. Follow the consequences and you arrive at a hole in the sky.
8 facts - The Failed Malaria Cure
A teenager ruins an experiment over the Easter holidays. Eight steps later, medicine learns how to aim.
8 facts - Everything Was Once a Whale
Streetlights, margarine, explosives, perfume. Eight facts tracing what the world used before it found substitutes.
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